UPDATE: Partial service resumes for ZBVI radio listeners
According to a senior staff of the radio company, only some sections of the Island, especially Road Town, are able to access the frequency as technicians have been testing the frequency.
Virgin Islands News Online understands that the technicians were quick on the respond following the accident and have been making some strides to return things to normalcy. While this news site was not able to reach the manager directly for update, we were informed that sometime tomorrow March 11, 2013 ZBVI should know where they stand in terms of have the general listening population being able to access the radio service.
In the meantime those who are fortunate to access, are at this stage enjoying music only as the regular programming has not gone back into effect.
See previous story posted March 9, 2013:
UPDATE: Vehicle pulls down ZBVI's 300ft antenna!
- Station still streaming via internet while seeking solutions to restore normal broadcast
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - [Posted at 7:55 AM] Persons normally waking up to the voice of ZBVI on the AM radio might have found it an unusual morning, March 9, 2013 as the station was off air since around 4 A.M. due to its broadcast antenna being pulled down in an accident at Baughers Bay.
How the vehicle ended up off the road and ended up with its front up into a tree is yet unknown but what is known is that some of the base wires for the antenna were close to the tree and were pulled down during the incident causing the 300 ft antenna that has stood there for more than four decades to come crashing down.
The vehicle, a Nissan XTerra with license plate PV23523 driven by someone named Sydney according to sources, is still at the scene of the accident and ZBVI remains off air on the AM frequency but continues to stream via the internet on www.zbviradio.com.
According to the Operations Manager of ZBVI, Sandra Potter-Warrican, she received a call around 4:30 A.M. informing her of the incident.
Potter-Warrican also noted that the radio station has already made contact with an engineering teem in St. Thomas, USVI and that the team is already on the way to Tortola to assess and seek a temporary solution to have the broadcast back up on the 780 AM frequency.
The Operations Manager also said that the engineers have already suggested that a temporary tower could be a solution. An alternative also, Potter-Warrican told Virgin Islands News Online, is that the station partners with the Department for Disaster Management (DDM) to broadcast via DDM's emergency signal. The latter suggestion is currently being looked at.
Whatever is worked out, the Operations Manager is hoping that the station would be broadcasting on the usual frequency in a matter of 48 hours.
It was noted that the antenna stood in the waters at Baughers Bay for some 48 years although some additions would have been done to it during that period to lengthen it to some 300ft.
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40 Responses to “UPDATE: Partial service resumes for ZBVI radio listeners”
LMAO!! His A$$ needs to be charged. He is always blazing going nowhere.
Drive safely people....
I hope the young man is okay and recovers from this traumatic experience.
Lb, can you give us your real name so the police report can be sent to you; that person had to going full-speed; after so many years of ZBVI; this dumb f__l come to this islands and cause such a problem;